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v. Support ASEAN Member States’ initiatives in strengthening national
gender and age-disaggregated databases and analyses, including
on poverty and equity, and establish a reliable regional database for
key sectors to support ASEAN policies and programmes;
vi.
Promote human capital development, economic self-reliance and
sustainable livelihood, especially among the poor, through access to
education, employment opportunities, entrepreneurship and microfinance;
vii.
Promote continuous efforts toward multi-dimensional poverty
eradication through multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder and communitybased
approaches;
viii.
Build an enabling environment to provide the unemployed, poor
and other marginalised groups equitable access to resources,
opportunities, and safeguard measures to prevent them from falling
under the negative influence of violent extremism and threats;
ix. Ensure inclusive, participatory and representative decision
making at all levels with special attention to the needs of those in
disadvantaged situations, including ethnic minority groups, children,
youths, women, persons with disabilities, and the elderly/older
persons;
x. Promote inclusive growth through appropriate measures at the
national level to ensure that the poor and vulnerable have equitable
access to economic and other opportunities;
xi.
Promote equitable opportunities to quality education and access
to information with priority given to the advancement of universal
access to education;
xii.
Promote a community that is healthy, caring, sustainable and
productive, and one that practices healthy lifestyle resilient to health
threats and has universal access to healthcare; and
xiii.
Promote increased accessibility for persons with disabilities and other
vulnerable groups in keeping with the universal design facilities.
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